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formed in India, do you wish to convert the three hundred millions of the people of my country to a faith which depends for its very existence on vicarious atonement and fall of main principles which are against, not only Hindu rea-on but human reason. But my missionary friends say they are educating the people of India. I ask them--with what object. It is only a bait ofíered for the purpose of catching the Hindu fish into the Cliristia 1 pet. The mission schools are Christian schools established with the avowed object of perverting the Hindus to Christianity. The education is given there from a Christian or rather a theological sta:dpoint. Educate a child in the Christian religio:1 and the child will profess that religion. That is 10 sig:1 of christian success. The secular educatio:giveri either in these schools or Government Engliso schools has, instead of develope ing our youths, suppressed their intellectural progress and wrested them violently into unnatural directions.
This is the result of the Christian educational policy. And how is that educational system supported ? It is supported out of the revenues derived from taxation. The taxes levied on Hindus also go to support the inissionary institutions to which government gives grants-in-aid. When the East India Company got possession of India, they posed as friends of the Hindus against the Mahomedan oppressors and they remained the friends of the
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